Staten Island and the Narrows: from Fort Hamilton – Vintage Print
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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A window into the past: Staten Island and the Narrows: from Fort Hamilton, preserved in this antique lithograph. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Staten Island and the Narrows: from Fort Hamilton
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Fort Hamilton, on the Brooklyn shore, looks out across the Narrows toward Staten Island in this hand-colored Currier & Ives lithograph, published around 1861. The print was drawn by Frances F. Palmer, the firm's most prolific landscape artist, who turned out views of New York harbor and its surroundings for a middle-class market eager for scenes of the region. Its vantage point places the viewer at the fort's guns, where the strait that connects New York Bay to the Atlantic is the commanding feature. The Narrows was a strategic approach to the city, and the fort guarding it dates to the early republic, which gives the view a quiet military undertone beneath its pastoral surface.
| Created / published | New York : Published by Currier & Ives, c1861. |
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| Medium | 1 print : lithograph, hand-colored. |
| Genre | Lithographs Hand-colored 1860-1870. |
| Notes | Artist: Frances F. Palmer. Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 6123 |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,218 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-172897 |
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